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No Microslop for me (media.piefed.social)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 9 points 8 months ago (9 children)

if you had 2 or more options on the table, one that forces you to go to work in a Tuxedo and one that doesn't, would you still claim it's insane to turn down the Tuxedo offer?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You’d have to get two offers, accept one of them, start getting onboarded by the company you accepted, learn about the OS policy, without the second offer having expired. Maybe your experiences are different but based on mine that’s completely unrealistic.

    Or maybe the second offer came in after having accepted the first one. That seems a lot more realistic, though extremely dependent on timing. But the most realistic scenario is, OP already had a job. But honestly if OP wasn’t just karma farming I’d expect them to have included the full story. So I’m pretty inclined to think this whole thing is bullshit.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Well, first of all, let's be clear that most likely this post is completely fake and just as true as a meme would be. We agree on that.

    But yes, I have been in that position myself, you get 2 offers within a week (which is not unheard of since, when looking for jobs, one usually blast CVs everywhere).

    As you point out, the second option is looking for a job while having one... you can go all the way and then pull back noticing you are going from whatever you have to worse

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I’d expect them to have included the full story.

    • there is no reason for anyone to do that
    • the "story", if true, does not necessarily have to come from the applicant
    • it may very well be bullshit, but the hints you chose to focus on are absolutely irrelevant
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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    If I'm being given the Tuxedo, I'm gonna make that look spiffy every day.

    That said, Windows is in no way a Tuxedo.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Windows is more of a "your socks must be damp at all times while on the clock" policy.

    Not exactly going to prevent you from getting your work done, but unpleasant, and you'll be miserable the whole time.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I really do not know what wearing a Tuxedo daily means to you... to me it means torture but it looks like you liked the idea so my example may not have been as clear as I wanted it to be

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The problem is that the second option also requires you to go to work in a tuxedo.

    Only a small niche of companies allow you to not work in a tuxedo.

    So complaining about tuxedos at a job (in this universe) is just dumb.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    The problem is that the second option also requires you to go to work in a tuxedo.

    I get the point you are trying to make but this is just a strawman here... you are changing the parameters of the case and attacking your own invention.

    Only a small niche of companies allow you to not work in a tuxedo.

    I disagree, it is not a small niche. It certainly is not the majority but it is not that small for the scenario in this, most likely fake, email. Anecdotally I can add I have been working (also a programmer) on Linux for the past 18 years and none of the companies I worked for supported it, they just did not care if I used it as my base OS, everything they cared about is under their control so as long as I could comply to those, they were fine with it

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